Agenda

“Analyzing The 1%” TV Show

Meeting Schedule

Crowdsourced Funding Platform

SIS (Office Space)

Civi for Working Groups (consensus)

Metrocards (consensus)

Marketing/Misc

“Analyzing The 1%” TV Show

Gilbert came to the group looking for help shooting a 45 min backdrop for a 1 hour live show called “Analyzing the 1%”. The group felt this was a job for Media. It was suggested that Gilbert use classifieds.occupy.net to post the job request. Media contacts were also exchanged.

Meeting Schedule

A discussion around meeting times, if two a week is too many. There is now some work space available and the team felt that it should do more work sessions. Due to some core members being out of town the meeting time’s discussion was tabled. It was agreed that more time should be spent in the IRC chat room: #nycga-techops on the freenode.net.

Crowdsourced Funding Platform

catarse.me is an open source crowd sourcing platform. The similarities to CiviCRM and Permabank were noted. There was generally positive reaction and Tom will be installing an evaluation instance.

SIS (Office Space)

Some computers and laptops are going to be delivered to SIS (38 Broadway) tomorrow. Casper needs help fixing some of the broken inventory (email tech@nycga.net if you want to help). Space is also needed to host more computers for the public.

Civi for Working Groups

People are confused about Civi and don’t think it’s ready (it is). There are a few groups currently using it, it’s ready to send first mass mailing. There needs to be training, promotion, and trust building to add admins. There is a lot of demand for a Civi training meeting.

How would the crowd sourcing platform relate the OWS Project List being worked on by Info and now being built into project directory through CiviCRM? Does it replace it or are they separate? The idea here was more to provide a list of projects from this GA and other occupations can do the same using templates we create, if they choose too.

Also, fundraising is being discussed with the National project with CiviCRM and occupy.org, should this be part of it or is it a separate ‘service’ offered through tech? If so, who manages it? This project is looking at alternative funding streams, so it may tie in very well and the folks managing it could be the accountability and fund-raising aspects through InterOccupy. We know things get complicated once money gets involved, is that the place tech wants to be?